Drinking Heineken and reading Poetry

There are several things in life that are good both inside and out. A nice cold pint of Heineken is one and a good poem is another. Which is why I am combining both at the moment so here is a slug of heineken fueled ee cummings, two lines , 18 words, no punctuation .... GLORIOUS!

id rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

Moden Life - The future of terror - a personal apraisal

Gentle Reader
I was a passed a book of poetry the other day. It has been a long time since a piece of modern poetry made me sit up and take notice. There are a few peots Seamus Heaney, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and even my little sister Janet being exceptions that make me sit up and take notice.

This did ...

The collection is called "Modern Life" by Matthea Harvey and it is just fantastic .. well i think so ;-) Go to here and have a read of poem Terror if the Future 7 (or listen).

Comic-melancholic, stranger than fiction, confabular and cartoonish, and invitation to all-to-real pressures of the "terror years." The two largest sequences, "The Future of Terror," and "The Terror of the Future," in fact, act as political and personal evocations to love in a time of uncertainty and dread. Both fragmented and incomplete abecedarians, these sequences confront our own subjective worry and inability to act.

If you like poetry and even if you don't this is well worth searching out!

Welcome to the Event Horizon

there are hard times ahead for the people of planet earth
staring into the open vortex of space and time
their eyes are open
but still, they are blind

i wander at the edge of the maelstrom and peer over the event horizon
all is change, all is flux, all is new
my eyes are open
but still, i am blind

An Ode to Server Problems

An Ode to Server Problems
(with a nod to Dr Seuss and a Wink at Duffbert)

If your code hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your Initialize() abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!

It's not my code, it's tested, its wonderful and it's fine,
debugged to distraction, of this bug there is no sign,
I've showed it to the Phigment who thinks it needs a tweek,
A change here, a comma there is the solution that we seek.

My users they have told me that my app is so very slow
Not the kindest are their comments and my cheeks they are a glow
I am at a loss, i can't explain it.... its become my buggy foe
Wild Bill will make this #1 in his next worst practice show.

So if a cursor finds a doc link which is followed by a dash,
And double-clicking on a button puts your vista in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
then your situation's hopeless, and your server's gonna crash.

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button or the mouse,
and your packets want to tunnel to another protocol,
that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a scouse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
cos as sure as sugar's sugar that bastards's gonna hang!